2024-08-27 04:37:17 <xentrac     > I'm excited to report that the janky : (let!) dup @ over swap 2r> rot >r rot >r >r >r ! ; : let! (let!) 2r> ! ; works in F83 as well
2024-08-27 04:37:55 <xentrac     > my recursive Towers of Hanoi with local variables runs in the 40-year-old interpreter
2024-08-27 04:38:07 <xentrac     > but first I had to define : 2r> r> r> r> rot >r swap ;
2024-08-27 04:38:52 <xentrac     > which took me several tries to get right
2024-08-27 04:55:27 <unjust      > congratulations. i'm going to have to draw a stack diagram in a text editor or some paper to make sense of what (let!) does
2024-08-27 10:23:02 <veltas      > xentrac: Post at some point and I'll get it running on ZX Spectrum(?)
2024-08-27 11:38:19 <veltas      > Ugh you know what I think I'm sick of vocabularies and wordlists at the moment
2024-08-27 11:38:55 <olle        > :O
2024-08-27 11:39:36 <veltas      > The only good thing about them is making apps with the forth interpreter, hiding normal words, which the standard doesn't even let you control properly anyway
2024-08-27 11:40:49 <veltas      > They're more trouble than they're worth for packages and scope
2024-08-27 11:40:54 <olle        > :d
2024-08-27 11:41:01 <veltas      > Not really the best way to do hiding/private stuff
2024-08-27 11:41:35 <olle        > lol encapsulation in forth?
2024-08-27 11:41:53 <olle        > is that even a thing?
2024-08-27 11:42:50 <veltas      > Yeah I think most of us have a way to do this
2024-08-27 11:43:02 <olle        > Liar!
2024-08-27 11:43:03 <olle        > jk
2024-08-27 11:43:28 <veltas      > I was using packages like in swiftforth but I just think it's crap
2024-08-27 23:42:09 <xentrac     > veltas: I'm not sure how you'd do a forth meta compiler without something like vocabularies and wordlists
2024-08-27 23:43:30 <xentrac     > unjust: I did write a longer explanation of let! in forth-dynamic-scoping.md in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git/
2024-08-27 23:46:21 <neauoire    > hello o/